Fads and fancies of representative Americans at the beginning of the twentieth century
Subtitle: being a portrayal of their tastes, diversions and achievements.
Contributors: Mann, William D'Alton, 1839-1920.; Harrison, Burton, Mrs., 1843-1920.
Publisher: Town Topics Publishing Company
Published: 1905
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: United States -- Biography.; United States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: NUC pre-1956 NM 0177866
Introduction signed: Constance Cary Harrison.
"We hereby certify that of this work ... we have printed one copy for each subscriber, two for the Library of Congress, one for the New York Public Library, one for the Library of the British Museum and one for the Archives of Town Topics, and no more; and that the plates from which the impressions were made have been destroyed. Bartlett & Company, The Orr Press"--P. [3], 1st sequence.
LC copy unnumbered. Signed by the president of Town Topics Publishing Company, W.d. Mann on p. [1], 1st sequence.
Table of contents: title: Colonel John Jacob Astor; title: Peter Marié; title: Clement Acton Griscom; title: Daniel O'Day; title: S. Osgood Pell; title: Washington E. Connor; title: James Montaudevert Waterbury; title: Charles Tyson Yerkes; title: Howard Willets; title: Harrison I. Drummond; title: Clarence A. Postley; title: Robert A.C. Smith; title: William Kissam Vanderbilt; title: Stanford White; title: Henry M. Flagler; title: Dean E.A. Hoffman; title: James Henry Smith; title: Perry Belmont; title: Henry Bradley Plant; title: Senator John Fairfield Dryden; title: Charles M. Schwab; title: Chauncey Mitchell Depew; title: Collis Potter Huntington; title: James T. Woodward; title: Edward Howland Robinson Green; title: Henry Siegel; title: Timothy Lester Woodruff; title: Pembroke Jones; title: Thomas Shaw Safe; title: William Astor Chanler; title: Henry Edwards Huntington; title: James J. Hill; title: Lewis Nixon; title: Oliver Gould Jennings; title: Francis Le Baron Robbins; title: David Rowland Francis; title: Levi Parsons Morton; title: Julius Fleischmann; title: Grant Barney Schley; title: Daniel Gray Reid; title: Augustus D. Julliard; title: George S. Scott; title: Morton Freeman Plant; title: Harry S. Black; title: William Collins Whitney; title: Anthony N. Brady; title: Grover Cleveland; title: Theodore Roosevelt; title: Samuel Newhouse; title: John Adams Drake; title: Oliver Harriman, Jr.; title: Thomas F. Walsh; title: Edward Julius Berwind; title: Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt; title: Stephen Benton Elkins; title: John H. Patterson; title: Levi Zeigler Leiter; title: Isaac E. Emerson; title: James Abercrombie Burden; title: Benjamin N. Duke; title: James Hobart Moore; title: Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt; title: Senator Nelson W. Aldrich; title: O.C. Barber; title: William Cornell Greene; title: Charles W. Morse; title: J. Pierpont Morgan; title: William Bateman Leeds; title: Thomas Fortune Ryan; title: Edward R. Bacon; title: Alfred Craven Harrison; title: Paul Gibert Thebaud; title: Charles Henry Cramp; title: Thomas W. Lawson; title: Clarence Hungerford Mackay; title: Peter Lorillard; title: Francis Thomas Fletcher Lovejoy; title: Amzi Lorenzo Barber; title: Alexander Van Rensselaer; title: James R. Keene; title: Foxhall P. Keene; title: Bishop H.C. Potter; title: Henry Clay Pierce; title: Patrick Calhoun; title: José Francisco Navarro de Viaña; title: Henry Baldwin Hyde.